An Xbox player was given a year-long ban for recording nude scenes in Baldur’s Gate 3.
Any clips you record on your Xbox are uploaded to Microsoft’s servers by default and may be automatically flagged as explicit content, as /u/Daddy-Vegas on Reddit found out when he automatically received a combined 390 day (4+21+365) suspension from Xbox Live for three clips he recorded.
His first appeal was apparently rejected, but subsequent appeals led to his ban being lifted after the gaming press picked up the story.
carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s dumb as shit, why does Microsoft even allow mature games on their platform if their platform doesn’t allow mature content. Sure, record blood and guts, but dont show a nipple or a penis unless it’s exploding in a shower of gore!!! What a fucking disgusting standard we have that gore and violence are celebrated but anything sexual, even simple nudity is some kind of felony offense.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 months ago
Still gets me that in GTA:San Andreas they had hours and hours of non-stop killing and gore - but it was a a low-poly blurred sex scene that was only available if you manually cracked the game files that made it go down in infamy.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Hillary Clinton literally promoted a fucking dumb fucking law in response to the Hot Coffee mod, along with “blue dog democrat” (read: Not So Secret Republican) Joe Leiberman. Thankfully the bill failed.
Leiberman literally used his votes to stand in the way of progress.
People to this day still lose their shit over the 2016 election and don’t understand why people hated Hillary Clinton and blamed it all on a “right wing propaganda machine.”
I guess they entirely forgot the absolutely fuck stupid shit she did in congress, like this.
This kind of shit showed her to be not only out of touch, but completely misunderstanding how unused code on a gaming console was such an unlikely thing to be leaked to kids to begin with. In her own dumbshit words, Hot Coffee was a “nothingburger.”
Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 10 months ago
The pearl clutching “think of the CHILDREN” in the media was ridiculous, like you said it is a thoroughly violent and gory game. It was a legitimate legal issue for Take2, Rockstar, and the ERSB however. The ESRB is a voluntary ratings organization like the MPAA, who work with publishers and retailers to provide consumers with accurate info.
Rockstar lied on the ESRB paperwork and shipped the CD with content that wasn’t disclosed. Irregardless if it required a crack or not, that is what was delivered, and that was a big deal. Huge breach of contract by Rockstar and/or Take2, and loss of trust from retailers towards ESRB ratings.
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 10 months ago
one reporter straight up lied and said the hot coffee mod was a multiplayer game where whoever rapes the most people wins
its not multiplayer, and all sex is consensual. what a bonehead
Cybersteel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think it’s because violence is commonplace in everyday life, a part of human nature, from wars to gin violence but icky weird sex stuff is not.
FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Thank the Christians
yurgenst@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No, I don’t think I will.
carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah they’re real hypocritical dick heads
Poggervania@kbin.social 10 months ago
As perplexing as the thought of “blood and gore good, nudity bad” is, legally I can see why Microsoft would take the heavy-handed approach.
If the dude in the article were to, say, share those scenes with somebody under 18 (which iirc is illegal since you’re distributing pornographic material to a minor), it’s probably not crazy of a stretch to say that Microsoft is legally liable for that happening on their platform. Easier to just do a carpet ban all-around to avoid it in the first place.
unautrenom@jlai.lu 10 months ago
In which case the ban should have happened upon sharing not recording. I mean if it isn’t clear that the records you make of singleplayer offline games are published online, then banning someone for what they record feels more like moral policing than anything else tbh.